Table 2 Categories, subcategories, and codes related to practices in the management of the COVID-19 pandemic
From: Management of the COVID-19 pandemic: challenges, practices, and organizational support
Categories | Subcategories | Open codes |
|---|---|---|
Changes in work schedules for nursing staff | In regular work places In isolation places | -Day and night shift only instead of three shifts, from 7AM–4 PM and from 4 PM–7 AM -Nurses stay 24 h; each nurse works 12 h a day and swaps shifts every 6 h |
Exchange process (deal between university hospitals) | The deal in regular work places | - Elderly nurses, nurses who support their families, nurses who have children, as well as nurses who have chronic diseases, work in regular places |
The deal in isolation places | - young nurses who do not have spouses or children and are free from chronic diseases to work in isolation hospitals (one university hospital) and partial isolation places in each university hospital with many facilities, such as: - Full accommodation in university cities for 14Â days - Provision of transportation - Transferring of signature to isolation facilities - Granting exceptional leave to workers in isolation - Exemption from signing for infected staff | |
Hospital preparation | Equipping the hospital | - The rapid-response team is appointed to deal with suspected and positive cases - Allocate rooms to sort the cases - Allocate rooms to isolate positive cases - Equipping ambulances by providing hand sanitizers, pumps for spraying chlorine, and personal coasters for the driver and paramedic - The morgue; training of workers on PPE use, disinfection, and sterilization, and posters on how to deal with COVID-19 deaths and mortuary refrigerators |
Infection control team | -Liaison between the Supreme Council of Universities and hospital managers -Monitoring to ensure medical and nursing teams and workers are wearing the personal protective equipment (PPE) correctly and in the appropriate places -Preparing reports about suspected cases and infected cases and the whole plan related to their role - The allocation of a tripartite committee to monitor the disbursement of personal protective equipment - Provide temperature detection reagents | |
Training and education | Training | - Conducting intensive training for the medical team - Training for doctors on performing swabs - Training on how to wear and remove PPE - Training on how to deal with suspected and infected cases |
Education | - Small lectures - Small education teams were assembled to teach doctors, nurses, and workers how to deal with each other and with suspected and infected cases |